Short Attention - John Locke

Yes. Yes! YES! YES!!!



(And please do not make fun of the video. I made it all by myself on my computer!)

Patsy Cline - Crazy

I absolutely cannot explain it, but yesterday, around 8:30 a.m., I needed to listen to this song - not once, but about a dozen times in a row. Lately I've been completely overwhelmed; I've got a huge project I'm working on, and I also have a smaller project that I'm working on that is more immediately challenging. And yesterday represented two milestones in these projects. I say this because my only guess as to why this song is that I've been feeling a bit crazy lately? But that would lend itself to Gnarls Barkley's song of the same title, I think. Whatever. I love this song. So does everyone in history. I'm over it.

Pixies - Trompe le Monde

Everything about this is wrong wrong wrong. The whole band relegated to the background. Lovering left to play air drums. A guitar solo by the dude from Letterman's band. A Paul Shaffer keyboard solo. I know the World's Most Dangerous Band/CBS Orchestra likes to play along but man, this is taking it way too far. Someone should put together a DVD compilation of performances by bands that have been compromised for television.

The Shangri-Las - Give Him A Great Big Kiss

My roommate and I have been playing this one all day. No hyperbole, this song is absolutely the highest point of American music, and is the very apex of twentieth century culture. No, seriously, it is the best thing. Listen you are standing the presence of greatness.



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Somebody left a bottle of Amaretto over here and I found a cocktail on wikipedia. Not only have I solved America, I get things done.

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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, 1914 - August Sander via Richard Powers

Dang old Mussolini on the set of Animal House, 1980

David Byrne inventing the bomb, Los Alamos

These fine people agree, this song is the key moment in that bitter century with those great wars, genocidiares and general wholesale dupage of everybody all the time. The Shangri-Las, they're God's answer to Job: "Your know, I do a lot of terrible things, but I can also make one of these."

Tom Waits - Diamond in Your Mind

I know I've had one Tom Waits post already this month, but indulge me. Besides, this is one of the bonus tracks off the Orphans vinyl, so I know someone will care. Drew will care.

You know it's an authentic Tom Waits song because he rhymes "Pinkerton raid" with "Three-finger Dave."



In exciting news about one of my other aural crushes, Kristian Matsson, alias The Tallest Man on Earth, has signed with a new label and will release "The Wild Hunt" in April. I previously wrote about meeting Matsson after a show in Seattle last year; he is by all accounts a likable dude. Along with that post I included a live version of "King of Spain," which lo and behold is the first single off "The Wild Hunt." You can download the album version here. And hell, Waits is putting out a new album later this year. It's time to get excited about your 2010 releases.

Rusko - Woo Boost

It's not often I venture into the realm of "noise," where I found this thing. I'm as big a fan of lyrics as the next man and condone their presence in just about everything I listen to.

But sometimes, if you can find something with a decent gif compilation (see bottom), you start making exceptions, and you'll get sucked into hearing said noise more than once. (... that is, if your brain is as easily amused as mine.)

Mingus- Haitian Fight Song